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The Delaware Water Gap Region, Tiie Pocono Mountains Region 

and 

The Stroudsburg = Delaware X'alley Region. 



C07VtPII_ED HMD PUBLISHED BY 

IVLORRIS EVANS, 

Stroxadsburg, F*a. 



InilTH SKEXCHES BV 

PROK. E. L. KEiVIP. 




Monroe Derriocrat, 

Stroudsburg. Penn'a 

Printers. 



Copyrighted i898, by Morns Evans. / 



Moss Photo Engraving Co., 

Puck Building. 

New York. 







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GLIMPSES IN PICTURESQUE MONROE. 



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theSTroudsburg-delaware yalley region, 



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, STROUDSBURG, EAST STROUDSBURG, HIGHLAND DELL, ANilLOMINK, 
PRRKSIDE, MARSHALL'S CREEK. COOLBAUGH AND BUSHKILL, 



by PROK. E. L. KEMP. 



fHE Stroudsbuig boroughs are two — Stroudsburg and East 
Stroudsburg. They are a pair of jewels set side by side 

in everlasting hills. They are enribboned with streams 
of clear, fresh-flowing water from the mountains. The Analo- 
mink, or Brodhead's creek, separates Stroudsburg from its 
sister borough ; McMichael's creek separates the main part of 
it from a southern addition; and Pocono creek, a tributary of 
McMichael's, does the same for a western addition. 

Above the hills that environ the towns rise the Pocono 
mountains in the north and the Blue mountains in the south. 
Many a field and many a lorest lies between, and the summer 
breezes that blow o\er them are laden deep with the balsam of 
health and vigor, deep with the scent of the forest and the per- 
fume of grasses and flowers. 

Stroudsburg is the county seat of Monroe county. A 
handsome stone court house with a miniature park in front of 
it ornaments the town and does credit to the county. 



The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western R. R. passes 
through East Stroudsburg, the New York, .Susquehanna and 
Western R. R. with its extension, the Wilkesbarreand Eastern, 
[passes through Stroudsburg. These roads and the abundant 
water supply give the towns exceptional industrial advantages. 
They are utilizing these with wonderful thrift and enter])rise. 
Because of it, one manufacturing establishment after another 
has been located in them, and smoke wreaths of industrial glory 
hover over them. 

Both towns have fine public school buildings, and well 
organized corps of intelligent and thoroughly trained teachers. 
East .Stroudsburg is the site of the State Normal School of the 
fourth Penn.sylvania district. It is the noblest monument of 
the grit and energy of the people. The school was erecteil 
on a large campus wrested from rocks, brush and swamp and 
converted into a thing of beauty. For convenience of access, 
picturesqueness and hcalthfulness of location the Normal .School 




STROUDSBURG AND HIGHLAND DELL RIDGE FROM CROWLEY' S HEIGHTS. 



1s second to none, and it has been remarkably successful. 

A street railway operated with a dummy engine furnishes 
transit between the boroughs. Electric cars will soon be used 
upon it, and the line will be e.xtended to the Normal School 
and the northern limit of East Stroudsburg. A gas plant still 
supplies light for the people who prefer it, but all public illumi- 
nation is electric. The water supply of both towns is excellent. 
The East Stroudsburg reser\'oirs are hidden away in a dense 
forest. Just above the lower one is a beautiful fall. The water 
leaps over a rocky wall thirty feet in height into a dark pool, 
darker because of the hemlocks that cluster about it. 

The older portion of Main street in Stroudsburg is one of 
the finest streets to be found in towns of its size anywhere in 
the state. It is unusually wide and lined with stately trees. 
Fine, large business houses are located on it, and residences 
palatial in elegance if not in size. Washington street, its East 
Stroudsburg extension, is also very handsome. 

The post-glacial terraces characteristic of this section of 
the country furnish superb sites for private residences. In 
both towns they have been utilized with excellent taste. Along 
them everywhere, surrounded with beautiful lawns and beds of 
flowers, are to be found homes costly and charming. 

In the heat of summer the large and well-managed hotels 
of Stroudsburg are thronged with visitors from the cities. East 
Stroudsburg has a number of special summer boarding houses. 
Though in town, the grounds around them are so ample and 
they are so embowered in forest trees that they ofter the beauty, 
freshness and retirement of country residences. 

South of the Stroudsburgs, extending east and west par- 
allel with the Blue, or Kittatinny, Mountains, is Godfrey's 
Ridge. The road to Stormsville through South Stroudsburg 
winds over it into the Cherry \'alley. A short drive westward 
along the summit of the ridge branches oti' from it. This never 
loses its charm even for the local inhabitants, who live within 



easy reach of the numerous scenes of beauty and grandeur in 
eastern Monroe. 

The top of the ridge is narrow and its sides are steep and 
covered with timber. At its base on the south is Cherry Val- 
ley, beautiful with the clear waters of Cherry creek winding in 
and out through rich meadows and fields of grain, rimmed 
with the rugged forest of the mountains beyond. Its base on 
the north is washed by McMichael's creek. Beyond this are 
Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg, and wonderfully beautiful 
they look as you gaze down upon them. Around and beyond 
them stretches a panorama of hill and mountain, forest, farm, 
and stream of surpassing magnificence. 

The road passes a number of boarding houses and private 
residences and through beautiful gro\-es of oak and maple be- 
tween. The houses have broad verandas, and crce])ing vines 
shut out the glare of the sun with a veil of green. Tiie end of 
the road is in Highland Dell, one of the rarest spots to he found 
anywhere. The Dell is an amphitheatre open to the north. 
The bosom of the hilltop is opened to receive the cool breezes 
wafted down over many a pleasant hill and valley from the 
mountains northward. 

From the high ground back of the Dell there are fine\aews 
of the valley and mountain from the Wind Gap on the west to 
the Delaware Water Gap on the east. Just opposite you may 
look into Wolf's Glen, the wildest in all this section, sombre 
with pines and hemlocks, and rugged with rocks, deep dowTi 
among which gurgles and sings a little stream. 

To the left of the Dell are strangely abrupt and irregular 
peaks and ridges covered with forests or checkered with fields 
and patches of timber. In front, along McMichael's creek on 
the other side, spreads out the magnificent estate of Col. Nor- 
ton with its stone-built mansion, reminding you of other lands 
and other times. Far beyond, over fertile fields and wooded 
heights, Pocono Knob raises its massive front high in the air. 



To drink in the balm of the atmosphere there, to feast the eye 
with scenes hke these, that is rest. Business cares are forgot- 
ten; the blood courses more vigorously through the veins; the 
heart sings. 

^HE Analomink starts as a mountain stream and retains that 
^ character throughout its course. There is a fascination in 

the vigor and dash of its downward rush to the great river. 
It issues from the wooded highlands at Spragueville, and flows 
to its passage between the Stroudsburgs through a picturesquely 
broken valley. 

There are special charms about many points in its course, 
and commodious summer boarding houses with spacious and 
beautiful grounds are near all of them. 

The special centres of interest above Stroudsburg are 
Analomink and Parkside. The stations for these are Sprague- 
ville and Henryville on the D. L. & W. R. R. That is the 
country of hills and glens and swift-running streams. Laurel 
and rhododendron, oaks, maples, pine.-;, and hemlocks cover it 
everywhere. Under their shade the cool waters swirl and gurgle 
among great boulders, kiss the mosses as they glide, or scatter 
spray over leaf and b'ossom from numberless rapids and cas- 
cades. From moist and shady glens the notes of the wood 
thrush ring bell-like in their clearness, and on the hillsides the 
whippoorwills make the evenings weirdly musical with their 
melancholy nielod)'. The streams swarm with trout and the 
woods abound in game. Wild nature here reigns supreme. 
Her robes in summer are sumptuous, and they are royal in 
their autumn splendor. 

^HE Stroudsburgs furnish the stations for visitors to places 
■^- along the Milford road to Bushkill and beyond. The 
country along this road is a much frequented summer re- 
gion, and well desen'es its patronage. Board is to be had al- 
most anywhere in this region. Nearly all the farmers take 



boarders and feed them well. Large and handsome houses' 
elegantly furnished and specially erected for the accommoda- 
tion of city visitors to the country, are located at Marshall's 
Creek and vicinity, Frutcheys, Coolbaughs, Bushkill, points 
between, and on sheltered hillsides and in retired nooks to the 
right or left of the road. 

In a country so uniformly charming it seems almost wrong 
to select scenes for special mention, and yet there are some 
whose claims for admiration are particularly potent. 

Near the village of Marshall's Creek are Marshall's Falls. 
The}' are not large, only a vest-pocket edition as it were, but 
remarkably beautiful. They are great falls in miniature. You 
never tire of them. Back in the woods the stream whirls in a 
curve b}' a great boulder, carried there by the ice in the forgot- 
ten long ago, hurries down a steeply shelving rock, and takes 
a great jump with a roar and splash into a deep, dark, rock)- 
chasm. It issues forth into what looks like the fragments of a 
great rock- roofed amphitheatre, is checked a little by a dam 
that makes boating possible, and then goes on its way rejoicing. 

A few miles further on is Echo lake. This is also small, 
fifty acres in area, but is fringed with trees and its waters are 
clear as crystal. It is one of the most beautiful of all the beau- 
tiful lakes in northeastern Pennsylvania. It teems with fish. 

Bushkill with the falls near it forms a sort of climax to this 
region. The boarding houses at Bushkill are among the finest. 
Bass fishing in the Delaware and trout fishing in the Bushkills 
are excellent. The hunting in the hills is of the best. The 
scenery is grand and refreshing. Not far away the Bushkill 
creek has the grandest fall in this region of water falls. The 
stream plunges over an almost perpendicular wall ninety feet 
in height down into a deep dark ravine. The sides of it frown 
with gigantic rocks and are sombred by dark-hued hemlocks. 
Through this the waters leap from ledge to ledge until they 
find rest in the level lands below. 




DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA «: WESTERN STATION, STROrDSRURG, PA. 




ALONG THE POCONO NEAR STROUDSBURG, PA. 




THE INDIAN QUEEN HOTEL, STROUDSBURG, PA. 
W. S. SHAFER, PROP'r. 




THE BURNETT HOUSE, JOSEPH OLLDORF, PROP R, 
STROUDSBURG, PA. 




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OFFICE A.\U ia:SIbK.\LE OF X. C. MILLFU, Y. D., 
STKOUDSBURG, PA. 




THE WASHINGTON JHOUSE, EDWIN SHAFER, PROP R, 
STROUDSBURG, PA. 







MCMICHAKL S FAI.l.S, STKOf DSHLUti. PA. 




RESIDENCE OF THOMAS KITSON, STROUDSBURG, PA. 




COURT HOUSE SQUARE, STROUDSBURG, PA. 




RESIDENCE OF AMZI B. WYCKOFF, 
STROUDSBURG, PA. 




RESIDENCE OK CICERO GEARHART, 
STROUUSBL'RG, PA. 




RESIDENCE OF CHARLES B. STAPLES, ESQ. 
STROUDSBURG, PA. 




ALONG THE POCONO, NEAR RESIDENCE OF T. DUNKIN PARET, 
STROUDSBURG, PA. 




THE HIGHLAND DELL HOUSE, HIGHLAND DELL, JOSEPH FOULKE, PROP R, 
STROUDSBURG, PA. 




BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS AND CHERRY VALLEY, 
FROM HIGHLAND DELL RIDGE. 




HIGHLAND INN, FORMERLY HIGHLAND COTTAGE, HIGHLAND DELL, 
C. H. PALMER, PROP'r, STROUDSBURG, PA. 




DELAWARE WATFR GAP AND CHERRY VALLEY, 
FROM HIGHLAND DELL RIDGE. 




THE LACKAWANNA HOUSE. FRANK A. SHAW, PROP R, 
EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. 




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RESIPEN'CE OF CHARLES H. IROW R 
EAST STROUDSBURG, I'A. 




STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, FOURTH DISTRICT, EAST STROUDSBURG, PA., 
GEO. P. BIBLE, A. M., PRINCIPAL. 




GYMNASIUM OF STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, EAST STROL'DSBCRG, PA. 
GEO. P. BIBLE, A. M., PRINCIPAL. 




ALONG THE ANALO .IINK, KEAR EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. 




LAWN ((ITTAGE, C. E. lURFEE, PROP R, 
EAST STKOCDSBURG, PA. 




RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH C. ROOP, 
EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. 




ALONG THE SAMBO, NEAR EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. 




DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN STATION, 
SPRAGUEVILLE, PA. 



RESIDENCE OF BARRET DECKER, 

ANALOMINK, PA. 




RESIDEN'CE OK W. T. HILDKVP, ANAl.OMINK, PA. 




marshall's falls house, e. d. huffman, prop r, 
Marshall's creek, pa. 




.MAKSllALl. S I ALLS, M,.\l. ..; .\ 1... 1 ....!. .-. i..l...;, 1. ii.. I'A. 




OAK GROVE COTTAGE, C. V. SMITH, PROP' R, 
MARSHALL'S CREEK, PA. 




RIDGE VIEW HOUSE. M. D. TIKN, PROP R, 
COOI.BAUllH, PA. 




ECHO LAKE HOUSE, REV. DR. C. E. VAN ALLEN, PROP R, 
COOLBAlfGH, PA. 




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ECHO LAKE, NEAR ECHO LAKE HOUSE, 
COOLBArCH. PA. 




BUSHKILL FALLS, BUSHKILL, PA. 




THE PETERS HOUSE, MRS. E. E. PETERS, PROPRIETRESS. 
BISHKIEL, PA. 




RIVERSIDE HOTEL, M. L. BACH, PROP'R, BUSHKILL, PA. 



THE DELAWARE WATER GAP REGION, 



BTutBRAClNG 



DELAWARE WATER GAP, MINSI AND SHAWNEE. 



by PROK. E. L. KEMP. 



T-F YOU should draw a line a mile and a half long westward 
T from the Delaware Water Gap along the crest of the Blue 
Mountain; from the ends, two more three miles in length, one 
along the crest of the New Jersey extension of the mountain, 
the other parallel with it: then another joining the loose ends 
of these, — you would enclose more scenic beauty, greater pos- 
sibilities of comfort combined with recreation and sport, than 
can be found in any other equal scope of country along the 
Delaware from its source to its mouth. A person standing on 
Mosier's Knob can take in most of this magnificent panorama 
with a sweep of the eye, and he can find a number of places on 
the mountain near the Gap where it is presented in its entirety 
or in its details as a never-failing source of admiration and de- 

Above it and below it and to the side of it, too, from both 
the knob and the summit of the mountain, the eye can range 
over such combinations of mountain, forest, river, farm and 
village as are not to be met with e\'erywhere. 

At many vantage places on the mountain you may sit on 
the brow of a ridge and look down into the river below with 
the rock-faced rift in the mountain to your right. When you 
turn to the left, you take in much of the village of Water Gap 
and the opening of Cherry \'alley. The latter is not wide, but 
fertile farms are in il. They gladden your eye. Cherry Creek 
with limpid waters meanders through it. As it glides along, it 



murmurs of the coolness and trout and orchards ancl daisies o' 
the days of your dream life. Godfrey's Ridge frames the val- 
ley on the north. Its extension northward and eastward keeps 
facing the mountain, and they two enclose the valley ol the 
Delaware. It is not so high as the mountain, but here bold 
breaks and abruj)! projections make it [licturesque. Urod- 
head's Creek hurries through one of its most romantic gaps 
just in front of you, and through another close by Marshall's 
Creek more leisurely comes to join it before it reaches the 
river. Here is Minsi 

Far up, almost at the end of the picture, through another 
break in the ridge, through fields that in their season are rich 
in produce and beautv, another mountain stream comes purl- 
ing down. There, groui)ed at the foot of the hills and in the 
entrance of the valley is the village of Shawnee. It is enwrap- 
ped in the emerald garb of the hills and cooled by the waters 
of rill and river. 

Here and there farms group at the base of the hill, or am- 
bitiously climb its side and the greater side of the mountain, 
but more generally forests of |>ine and hemlock, ol chestnut, 
oak and maple crown and cover both. 

Through the midst of it all the river comes winding ma- 
jestically down, washing the base of the mountain on one side, 
fields and groves on the other. It gracefully enfolds islands of 
wonderfiil fertilitv, and islands covered with rocks and birches 



and willows. It dashes underneath the airy spans of a railroad 
bridge, and finally moves in stately curves more slowly through 
the Gap. It lingers in the shade of the mountains. 

The grandest part of all is the Gap itself Mountain, 
road, railway, river; river, road, railway, mountain — so you 
see it. Thirteen hundred and fifty feet of mountain with a 
little slope on one side of the river, fourteen hundred feet with 
no slope on the other — that is the Gap. Slope and trees and 
rocks are the mountain on one side, rock upon rock lifted 
high in the air and a forest crown are the mountain on the 
other, with the rock fragments of ages heaped at its base to 
support it. So with modified height and form it prolongs 
itself a considerable distance up the river; the wooded slope 
on the Pennsylvania side, and the sheer rocky wall with its 
layers and iolds and ribbons on the other, interrupted by 
mountain glens and valleys. 

Many of the charms of mountain scenery are crowded 
together near the Gap, especially on the Pennsylvania side. — 
Here and there are cliffs to which are open enchanting views 
ot field and forest, stretches of river, and mountain heights 
and glens and gorges. Between the Kittatinny and the Water 
Gap House a beiutiful lakelet mirrors trees and rocks, and 
catches the glint of the stars and the moonlight. 

Not far away a mountail rill. Eureka creek, leaps down 
through a wild glen from rock to rock in miniature cascades, 
or tarries in little pools and reaches among rhododendrons 
and hemlocks where the sunlight penetrates only in strag- 
lingf gleams. Mr. Childs in his thoughtfully generous way 
built a beautiful rustic arbor by the roadside at the entrance 
of the glen, and fitted the pathway along its side with rustic 
rails and bridges. 

Possibly the most beautiful place of all is Caldeno Falls. 
In a recess of the mountain there is a basin partly rimmed 
with a wall of rocks. Stately trees overhang it. Mosses en- 



velvet and festoon the rocks. The crystal waters of a little 
stream after gliding swiftly down the steep mossy slope of 
Table Rock, leap merrily into the basin, or steal slowly 
down its broken sides caressing the mosses as they go. If 
there were nymphs and fairies as the people of old believed, 
here is where they would love to linger, in the shade of the 
trees and the sprinkled coolness of the spray. 

/T) INSI is a mile above the Gap. There is not a foot of it 
i that is not romantically beautiful. As you approach it 
from below, one road turns to the right across the Analomink, 
the other keeps on by its side through an arcade of birches, 
sycamores and elms. High hills overhang it on both sides. — 
At one place a picturesque paper mill is crowded between it 
and the creek on one side, an old stone mansion between it 
and the railroad on the other. Finally it crosses the creek 
near the railroad bridge, and there is beauty if anywhere. 

After leaving the breast of a dam above, the waters rush 
down a steep rocky bed from under the shade of hemlocks 
past the sides of a tree-covered island. Water tumbling over 
the chute of a race on the left adds volume to the boisterous 
music of its flow. 

On that side, too, a high hill with precipitous side extends 
to the edge of the water. A projection of rock, regular in its 
formation as the wall of a castle, stands boldly forth on its 
front. A dense growth of hemlocks and laurel mainly cover 
all the rest of the hill. On its top seats have been built under 
the trees, and the views of the Gap and Chei'ry Valle}' and the 
country northw'ard are superb. 

INIore of the village is along the road to the right, the road 
to Shawnee. To see it at its best, you must approach it from 
above. You come to it over a high river terrace. As you 
descend the steep slope of this, you enter the shade of the trees 
and the cooling influence of Marshall's creek. Rhododen- 




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DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 



drons grow by the roadside. They border a steep hill on the 
left. Its rounded mass v.as piled up ages ago by the play of 
waters in a chasm of the great glacier. A forest covers it, and 
a white-walled Lutheran chapel poetically crowns its top. To 
the right, through a break in a steep-sided hill also green with 
the garments of trees, the creek hastens down with ripples and 
eddies and murmurs on its way to the Analomink. By its 
side are a grist mill and saw mill and the houses of the village. 
There is a charm in the combination. 

Abo\e the paper mill the road to Stroudsburg passes 
near the Water Gap Sanitariam with its attractive buildings 
and grounds. The road to the right past these, brings the 
sight-seer to the foot of Buttermilk falls. On the way, near 
the Sanitarium, he passes the grounds of the Water Gap 
Camp Meeting Association. A fine growth of oaks and 
chestnuts co\er them. Among these nestle a little chapel 
and a school house. The falls, too, are a feast for the 
eyes. Marshall's creek rolls from ledge to ledge over the 
rounded, sloping sides of a great rock, and the murmur of the 
trees mingles with the voices of the waters. Just below, the 
creek takes another leap over the rocks and then glides gently 
into the bosom of Silver Lake, just back of Minsi. 

To come to it wearied, to. drink in the beauty of the 
wooded hills which are around it everywhere but at its lower 
end, where meadows and fields, grazing cattle, a mill and 
houses, add a homelike attractiveness to the scene, to angle 
its bass and pickerel, to float on its bosom when stars shine in 
it, to listen there to the whippoorwill's serenade to the moon- 
light, is to say — "Here let me rest." 

fHAWNEE is within easy reach of all, and majestically 
beautiful in itself The most magnificent drive in Mon- 
roe county is from Shawnee to Water Gap by the river road. 
The beauty of the landscape and the fertility of the soil in the 



valley and on lowlands and islands of the river attracted to 
Shawnee some of the first settlers in Pennsylvania. One of 
the early forts lor defence against the Indians was here. 

Back of the village is Mosier's Knob. Opjjosite on the 
mountain in New Jersey is Mr. Worthington's park. Many 
hundred acres of forest land are enclosed and farms are includ- 
ed. Wild deer come out of the timber into the fields to graze. 
On the top of the mountain, too, there is a beautiful lake in a 
wild and de.solate spot. It teems with bass and perch. 

To the pure water, healthful air, and romantic beauty of 
this region are added the fascination of sport. Pheasants, rab- 
bits, and scjuirrels abound, and quail at times are fairly plenti- 
ful. Tiiere is a successful shad fishery in the Gap. and an- 
other at Shawnee. Of late years bass fishing has been e.xccl- 
lent all along this part of the Delaware, and occasionally won- 
derful catches of rock fish are made. The Analomink and 
Marshall's Creek both have trout. Besides this, not far away 
are some of the finest hunting and fishing grounds still left in 
the eastern part of the country. 

Another interesting feature of the region is its accessibility. 
The main line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail- 
road pa.sses through it, bringing it within two ho\irs and a half 
of New York and three of Philadelphia. There is a station at 
Water Gap. The Belvidere division of the Pennsylvania road 
connects it with Philadelphia, meeting the D. L. ^c W. road at 
Manunka Chunk. The .\ew \'ork, .Susquehanna and Western 
with its Wilkes- Barre and Eastern extension also ])a.'ises 
through it, and has a station at the Gap and at Minsi. ^JJ^";^ 

At the Water Gap and other villages and along the raids 
connecting them are well equipped hotels and boarding houses 
enough to accommodate a large number of visitors. Good 
rooms and good board can be had as low as a dollar a day, 
and at five dollars a day the visitor may enjoy all the lu.xuries 
of modern life. 




THE KITTATINNY, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 

w. A, brodhead's sons, prop'rs. 




THE kutatinnv, of-I-aware water gap, 

W. A. BRODHEAD'S SON'S, PROP' RS. 




WATER GAP HOUSE, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 
L. W. BRODHE\D, PROP' R. 




WEST PORTICO, WATER GAl' UOLSE, 
DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 




WATER GAP HOUSE, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA., 
L. W. BRODHEAD, PROP' R. 




VIEW FROM PIAZZA OF WATER GAP HOl'SE, 
DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 




THE GLENWOOD, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 
P. R. JOHNSON, PROP'r. 




VIEW FROM PIAZZA OF THE GI.ENWOOD, 
DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 




THE GLENWOOD, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA., 
P. R. JOHNSON, PROP'R. 




CALDENO FALLS, DELAWARE WATER GAP, I'A. 




THE CENTRAL, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 
S. D. OVERFIELD, PROP' R. 




VIEWS FROM PIAZZA OF THE CENTKAI. 
DEI-AWARE WATER GAP, PA. 




THE RIVER FARM HOUSE, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA., 
H. A. CROASDALE, PROP'r. 




LAKE l.hiNAPE, Ul-;iw\\\AKK WATER GAP, PA. 




THE WATER GAP SANITARIUM, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 
F. WILSON HURD M. D., PROP'r. 




THE WATER GAP SANITARIUM, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 
F. WILSON HLRD, M. D. , PROP'r. 




THE WATER GAP SANITARIUM, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 
F. WILSON HURD, M. D., PROP'R. 




IH'i TKKMII.K lAI.IS. .M;.\K W A I I I; '.AI' ^amiakum. 




THE CATARACT HOUSE, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 
L. M. TUCKER, PROP' R. 




SILVER LAKE, NEAR THE CATARACT HOUSE. 




GROU-NDS OF THE WATER GAP CAMP MEETING ASSOCIATION, 
N. B. DEMUND, SEC' Y, MINSI, PA. 




GROUNDS OF THE WATETR GAP CAMP MEETING ASSOCIATION, 
N. B. DEMUND, SEC'Y, MINSI, PA. 




THE SHAWNEE HOUSE, NEAR DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 
I. R. TRANSUE, PROP'r., SHAWNEE, PA. 




VIEW OF II I AW AKi; W A 1 1 K i.Al' MUiM I'lA/./A 1)1- liAl" VIEW HOUSE, 
SAM'L OVERFIELD, PKOI-'K., MINSI. I'A. 




THE KITTATINNY — FROM THE RIVER, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA. 
W. A. BRODHEADS' SONS, PROP'RS. 




DELAVVARK WATER i.,\V, PA. 




"BOARDERS WANTED.' 



THE POCONO MOUNTAINS REGION, 



eTVIBRnCINC 



MOUNT POCONO, SWIFTWHTER. TOBYHANNA MILLS, CRESCO. MOUNTAIN HOME, 
CANADENSIS AND HOUSER MILLS. 



by RROF. E. L. KEMP. 



/nOUNT POCONO is a station on the Delaware, Lacka- 
■f wanna and Western Rail Road on the edge of the Po- 
cono Plateau. It is more than eighteen hundred feet 
above the level of the sea. Tobyhanna, another station on the 
road, seven miles away, is nearly two thousand feet in eleva- 
tion. This country is making for itself a growing reputation 
as a health resort. As such, it has received an enviable en- 
dorsement Not long ago it was made the subject of a special 
paper read before a body of scientists bv an eminent physician, 
an authority on climatology. He declared it the best resort 
east of the mountains in Colorado for people suffering from 
throat and lung troubles, malaria, and exhausted nervous sys- 
tems; little inferior, in fact, to Colorado itself. 

In spite of the heavier rainlall of the East, because of su- 
perior drainage due to slope, the abundance of rocks, and the 
peculiar lightness of the soil, the air is remarkably dry. It is 
pure and mild, and has in it the he.ilthful balm and tlie exhil- 
arating cordial of the breath of primeval fore.=ts. The nights 
are cool, and the mean temperature considerably lower than in 
the towns and cities. The water, too, is unusually free from 
mineral or other impurities. 

Then, too, for the eye open to what is beautiful and grand 
in nature, to what is interesting in the record of the handi-work 
of the ages, there are inexhaustible resources. The spirits can- 
not remain at any low level. They must rise and soar and 
sing like the birds. 



Added to this are great possibilities for sport in the j)rop- 
er seasons. Before the new law, enormous (jtiantities of game 
were shijjped out of this region to the New York and Phila- 
delphia markets, phea.sants, rabbits and (juail almost without 
number, and an occasional deer and bear. The streams abound 
in trout, sui)erior in size and flavor, and some of the best of 
pickerel ponds are within easy reach. 

Along the railroad, Tobyhanna and Cresco seem to be the 
favorite centres for sport. The former has large boarding 
houses. The larger forest growth about it has nearly all been 
cleared away, but the younger growth furnishes abund- 
ant and excellent cover for smaller game, and large numbers 
of ducks resort to the ponds (fthe neighborhood in spring and 
fall. Tobyhanna creek, Hawkey's Pond run, the Tunklian- 
nock antl the Lehigh are well stocked with trout, and it is not 
an unusual thing to catch a three pound speckled beauty to 
make the heart throb and thump with exultation. 

Another favorite resort for hunters and fisherman is Stauf- 
fer's, or Houser Mills, on the Wilks-Harre & Kastcm road. 
Many have become to subject to the charms of the place that 
the\' iierforce return to it year after year for a season of rest 
and recreation. 

At Mount Pocono the summer hotels arc numerous and 
worthy of the place. They are located on the plateau itself, 
on the sloping side of the mountain, or on projecting spurs. 
.Some of them are very large. They are eleg.uitly furnisheil, 



and equipped with all the modern appliances for convenience 
and comfort. Spacious verandahs extend around them, and 
wide lawns give them, an emerald setting. 

Connected with some of the houses are great tracts of for- 
est lands. On them are large artificial ponds for boating. 
Long stretches of trout streams flow through, and there are 
private walks shaded with forest trees and bordered with lux- 
uriant rhododendrons, and private drives to outlook heights. 

Many comfortable and beautiful private summer cottages 
are scattered about on the mountain, adding much to the life 
and attractiveness of the resort. Among the handsomest of 
these are those of Rev. Dr. Batten and of Mr. Ellwood Bon- 
sall of Philadelphia, and of Mr. Carl Tielenius of New York, 
all of whom ha\-e done much to advance the interests of Mt. 
Pocono. During the summer months Dr. Batten conducts 
services in the neat little Episcopalian chapel erected, among 
the trees of the mountain for the convenience of visitors. 

Drives have been built over tunnel hill. From it the view 
is magnificent. The mountain extends to the right and the 
left. Its front is ruggedly seamed and scarred with deep re- 
cesses and valleys and gulches, down which trickle and rush 
and leap the spring-fed tributaries of the branches of the Ana- 
lomink and of Pocono creek. Here and there bold spurs pro- 
ject far out from its front, like the salients of a fortress of Ti- 
tans. The noblest of these is Pocono Knob to the west. Stern- 
ly it frowns on the landscape below. 

More than twenty miles away the Blue Mountain bounds 
the horizon. The abrupt break at the Delaware Water Gap 
gives a glimpse of the hills of the vast region beyond. Be- 
tween the beholder and the mountain roll away hill upon hill, 
like great broken billows of forest, made beautiful by inter- 
spersed islands of farms. It is a grand domain, a Icing might 
wish to own it. 



The view is rivaled by those from Seven Pine mountain 
and Cresco Heights. On the former Mr. Tielenius has enclos- 
ed hundreds of acres for a deer park. In it are a herd of forty 
elk and a large number of deer. 

Beyond the first spur to the west of Mt. Pocono is Swift- 
water. Whether you approach it from the wooded height 
above or through the dense forest below, it bursts upon you 
like a vision of beauty. For the sojourner for pleasure, the 
hunter, and fisherman that is an ideal place. The waters of 
the little stream are swift indeed, the meadows green, and the 
forest trees are stately. The taste of those who have built there 
have added to its charms. 

An interesting drive is down through Paradise valley. On 
one side of the road are productive farms; on the other Para- 
dise creek hurries along by the base of a hill. The road passes 
farm houses and cosy villages on its way to the beauties and 
pleasures of Parkside In June the rhododendrons that cover 
the hill overshading the creek, fill all the valley with the glory 
of their blossoms. 

Cresco is the station for another series of gems with a 
mountain setting. Mountain Home, Canadensis and Spruce 
Cabin. All are summer resorts. 

Mountain Home and Canadensis are pastoral interludes in 
a grand epic of forest and mountain. They are farming vil- 
lages, located in valleys and on hillsides in the midst of fields, 
but forest-covered hills are around them on everv side. 
Through them and around them flow clear mountain trout 
streams. Not far away in one of them, Buck Hill creek, are 
two very beautiful falls. 

Just below them the valley narrows, the east branch ot 
the Analomink widens and deepens and sings more boisterous- 
ly, the wild beauties of mountain scenery are crowded close 
together, and there is Spruce Cabin. 




DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN STATION, MOUNT POCONO, I'A. 




CAMPING IN THE POCONO MOUNTAINS REGION 
OF PICTURESQUE MONROE. 




nUCKHII.L FALLS, POCONO MOUNTAINS REiilON 
OF PICTURESQUE MONROE. 




THE POCONO MOUNTAIN HOUSE, E. E. HOOKER & SONS, PROP' RS, 
MOUNT POCONO, PA. 




ONE OF THE COTTAfil-S OF THE POCONO MOUNTAIN HOUSE, 
E. E. HOOKER & SONS, PROP' RS, MOUNT POCONO, PA. 




MOUNT PLEASANT HOUSE, HENRY M. LEECH, PROP'r, 
MOUNT POCONO, PA. 




DELAWARE WATER GAP FROM MOUNT PLEASANT HOUSE, 
HENRY M. LEECH, PROP'R, MOUNT POCONO, PA. 




THE WISCASSET, MOUNT POCONO, PA., 
I. D. IVISON, MANAGER. 




ENTRANCE TO WISCASSET HEIGHTS, ON GROUNDS OF THE W ISC ASSET, 
MOUNT POCONO, PA. 




RHODODENDRON WALK ON GROUNDS OF THE WISCASSETT, 
MOUNT POCONO, PA. 




TRINITY CHURCH, MOLNT POCONO, PA. 




NEW FAIRVIEW HOUSE, MOUNT POCONO, PA., 
WILLIAM K. LEBAR, PROP'r. 




TYPICAL TROUT STREAMS IN THE POCONO MOUNTAINS REGION. 




SUMMER RESIDENCE OF ELLWOOD BONSALL, PHILADELPHIA, 
AT MOUNT POCONO, PA. 




THE CLAIRMONT HOUSE, MOUNT POCONO, PA., 
C. H. SMITH, PROP'R. 




DEVILS HOLE, MOINT POCONO, PA. 




SUMMER RESIDENCE OF C. TIELENIUS, IMEW YORK, 
AT MOUNT POCONO, PA. 




GLIMPSES IN DEER 




THE FOREST HOUSE, SWIFTWATER, PA., 
JOHN HAMBLIN, PROF'r. 




GLIMPSES AT THE FOREST HOUSE, SWIFTWATER. PA. 
JOHN HAMBLIN, PROP' R. 




LAUREL INN, HOUSER MILLS, PA., 
ISAAC STAUFFER, PROP'r. 




stauffer's mill, near laurel inn, 

ISAAC STAUFFER, PROP'R. 




SPRUCE CABIN INN, PRICE BRO'S, PROPRIETORS, 
- CANADENSIS, PA. 




SPRUCE CABIN INN AND BRODHEAD S CREEK, 
PRICE BRO'S. CANADENSIS, PA. 







GLIMPSES IN THE POCONO MOUNTAINS REGION. 




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HOMEWARD BOUND FROM THE POCONO MOUNTAINS REGION. 




THE TOBYHANNA HOUSE, TOBYHANNA MILLS, PA., 
J. W. CORNISH, PROPRIETOR. 




TYPICAL WINIEK SCENE IN THE POCONO MOUNTAINS REGION. 




ALONG THE LACKAWANNA, IN PICTURESQUE MONROE. 



BOARDINO HOUSH DIRECTORY. 



Post Office. 



House. 



Capacity. Proprietor. 



Analoralnk Stites' Mountain House, 100 Thomas H. Stltes. 

" Cherry Lane Cottage 40 John Henry. 

" Analomin It Cottage 20 John L. DeWllt. 

KUIge Dell House 20 John B. Smiley. 

Bushiclil *The Peters House 100 Mrs. E. E. Peters. 

TheGonzales House 75 s. G. Peters. 

" 'Riverside House 7.5 M.L.Bach. 

" Mountain View House tiO Jacob Plare. 

" tiueen Anne Cottage 20 Mrs W. D.Turn. 

Coolbaugh Lakeland House ta C. S. Van Why. 

" 'Ridge View House 50 M. D. Turn. 

•' »Echo Lake House 50 C. E. Van A lien. 

" Brookdale Cottage 20 Mrs. Sara Jackson. 

" Mountain Farm House 15 O. T. Kaunas. 

Canadensis *ripruee Cabin Inn (iO Price Bros 

" Laurel Grove House 60 C. W. Brulon. 

" Mountain Cottage 35 Elbert Phelps. 

" Fairview House 20 William Krummell 

" Canadensis House 15 Wilkinson Price. 

" Mounlain View Farm 15 R. O. Lomax. 

Crcsco Summit Farm House 75 Robert C. Price. 

Del Water Gap, 'The Killatinny 350 W. A. Brodhead's S 

" 'The Water Gap House a50 L. W. Brodhcad. 

*TheGlenwood iflO P.K.Johnson. 

'TheCentral l.iO .S D. 0\erfield. 



Ri ver View House 

The Mountain House 

The Delaware House 

.. 'The Cataract House. 

Far View House 

.Tlie Arlington. 



, 150 Mrs. Lizzie Lebar. I 

ICO Mrs. Theo. Houser.t S)on 
. 100 John Yarrick. ' ' 

.100 L. M Tucker, i 

!I0 Adam Transue. l 

Miss L A. Dutot. \ 



.Riverside House 50 M. M. Ace. 

.The Forest House 50 A. L. Mar.sh. 

.Brodhead Cottage ,50 B F. Brodhead. 

.'The Water Gap Sanitarium.. 60 F. Wilson Hurd. 

.•lilver Farm Uouss 35 H. A. Cronsdale. 

.Branch Cottage. 30 Elias Compton. 

Cherry Creek Cottage 25 Mrs. Simon C. Houser. 

Brldgeview Cottage 20 Grant Edinger. 



Frank A. Shaw. 
75 Charles K. Durfee 
75 Wni. F. Bush. 
(10 Mrs. Chas. Dearr. 

Harry Fisher. 



Ea-itStroudsburg. 'The Lackawanna 

" 'Lawn Cottage 

" Locust Grove House 

" Prospect House 

" Monroe Cottage 

" vineyard Cottage 25 N. C.'Sl. Bonnett. 

...Old Homestead Cottage 15 E. D. Beardslee. 

...Resica Falls House 25 H. T. FrankenHeld. 

..Green Kidge Farm House 25 Stogdell Wolf. 

Houser Mills *ljiurel Inn 75 Isaac Stau Her. 

MarslialLs Creek, 'Marshalls Creek House .50 E. D. Ilullman. 

TheSunsel House 50 Cyrus Custard, .Manage 

'Oak Grove Cottage .50 C. V. Snillh. 

•' The Tltania House tj James T. Wolf. 

* Illustrated I 



ntcheya 



Post Office. 



House. 



Capacity. Proprietor. 



Marshalls Creek, Highland Retreat 30 

" Bonny Meade Farm House 20 

" Mountain Brook House 20 

Cllir Collage 20 

MinsI The Gap View House 115 

" Edgemont House 25 

" Golden Rule Farm House 15 

" North Gap Cottage 15 

" Water (iap Camp McetinK Asso 

Mt. Pocono 'l^ocono .Mounliilu House '2.50 

" 'Mount Pkii^ant House 2.50 

.'Tlie Wisntsset 150 

•' Summit House 150 

'The (;ialt-inont BO 

" 'New Fairview House .50 

" Meadowslde Cottages 50 

" The Pocohasset 40 

" Belmont House -10 

" Chestnut Grove Cottage 25 

" The Fowler House 2.5 

•• *The Elsa Cottage 15 

Pine Knoll Cottage 15 

" Pennhurst Cottage 15 

" Drake Cottage 15 

" (i rove Cottage 20 

" Fansecn Cottage 20 

.Mounlalnhome.. Mountain House 40 

Highland Villa 30 

" ......Mount Alrv House 25 

Parkslde The Park House 100 

.. .. Henryvilie House (« 

Paradise Valley.. Paradise Mounlain House — 00 

Mounlain Cottage 20 

.Shawnee 'The Shawnee House 100 

' The Lenwood ,30 

Shoemakers Winona House ,50 

Decker Cottage 15 

" 'I'errace Cottage 15 

Stroudsburg 'The Indian (Jueen 1.50 

'The Burnett House 1.50 

'The Washington Hotel 100 

'Highland Dell House 1.50 

'■ 'Highland Inn 75 

•' The Avon House 30 

" Breeze Lawn '£> 

Brookside Cottage 15 

Swift water The swift water 1-50 

'The Forest House IM 

Tannersville Pocono Hotel 25 

" Woodslde Cottage aj 

'■ Forest View — I'l 

Tobyhanna 'The Toby hanna House I.TU 

n body of book. 



C. CbrlBtlan. 

M. Wyckoir. 

8. O. Coss. 

A. K. Pearsall. 

Hamuel Overlield. 

James Calvin. 

Andrew Hiilliiian. 

Eugene Heller. 

N. It. lieinund,.Sec. 

E. E. Hooker .4 Son. 

Henry .M. Leech. 

I. I>. Ivlson, .Manager. 

Mrs. EmllvSchoenduv 

Charles K.Smllli. 

Win. K. l^Bar. 

.Mrs IsabelleSinlth&Son. 

Wm. Dowling it: Son. 

MIssS. A.Cornivli. 

Mrs. James Wilson. 

l)anlel Fowler. 

C. Tlelenlus. Ill) Waverly 
Place. New York. 

Mrs. Dorsey. 
Miss .Mary Price. 
Mrs. K. Drake. 
George .Smith. 
Geo. J. Fanseen. 

D. Bender & Son. 
Henry Price. 
Harry E. Heller. 
W. C. Henry. 
Eugene R Henry. 
D.J. Rinlz. 

H. a. Cuurtrlght. 
I. R. Transue. 
George Delrlck. 
Jolin Gverdeld. 
Simeon Decker. 
S Dewltt. 
W. .S. Shnler. 
Joseph Olldorf. 
Edwin Sharer. 
J. F. Foulkc. 
C. H. Palmer. 
T. Palmer. 
S. B. Palmer. 
W. C. Caddon. 
Mrs. A. .McGlnnls. 
John Hainlilln. 
Chunk's BroHii- 
William Chigslone. 
John Clarke. 
J. W. Cornish. 



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